The Last of the Hippies By: CJ Stone. 88,685 words. Dedication. For John Pendragon 1946-1998. The last of the hippies. Blurb It’s hard to know where the hippie movement begins. It’s even harder to know where it ends. There were … Continue reading The Last of the Hippies by CJ Stone

Chapter 12. The Pilton Pop Festival. Rain. Rain, rain, rain, rattling on the roof of the van, falling in waves, washing down the hillside in muddy streams, gathering in pools: relentless, driving rain, hissing and shifting and blustering about. Rain. And then mud. Streams of mud. Rivers of mud. Oceans of dark, slimy, greasy, sticky mud. Mud up to your ankles when you walked. Mud splashing your trouser legs and up over your coat. Mud on the toilet seats in the awful festival toilets, looking like shit. Mud to stand up in and mud to sit down in. Mud. That … Continue reading The Last of the Hippies by CJ Stone: sample chapter